Pattern for cutting half-soles



I-"I. W. GILBERT.

PATTERN FOR CUTTING HALF SOLES APPLICATION FILED III III. II. I9I9.

1,339,702. Patented May 11, 1920 WILLIA W. GILBERT, or sANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA.

PATTERN roa CUTTING HALF-SOLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented May 11, 1920.

Application filed March 17, 1919. Serial No. 283,045.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that 1, WILLIAM W.'GILBERT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Santa Ana, in the county of Orange and State of California, have invented a new and useful Pattern for Cutting Half-Soles, of which the following is a specification;

This invention relates to a pattern for use in cutting half-soles from leather or other material employed in making half-soles for shoes, and an object of the invention is to provide a pattern of this character which will eliminate considerable waste in the use of leather or the like in the repair of shoes.

Another object is to provide a pattern of this description whereby six half-soles can be out from the same size block of leather or other material that by using former patterns provided for only five half soles.

Other objects and advantages will appear in the subjoined detailed description.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention:

Figure 1 isa plan view of a pattern made in accordance with this invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan View of two blocks of leather, laid side by side, after they have been marked for right and left half-soles by using the pattern shown in Fig. 1.

The pattern comprises six half-sole shapes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 joined together and forming a unitary structure. The half-sole shapes are of different forms and sizes, said forms and sizes being such that any size of womans shoe can be half-soled by using the appropriate half-sole shape represented in the pattern.

The half-sole shapes areso arranged in the pattern that the rear end 7 of the shape 1 is at one end edge of the pattern and the longitudinal axis of said shape extends obliquely with reference to the ends of said pattern. Als) the rear'end 8 of the shape 3 is at the opposite end edge of the pattern and the longitudinal axis of said shape extends obliquely to the end edges of the pattern and substantially parallel with the longitudinal axis of the shape 1. The rear ends 9, 10 of the shapes 5, 6, respectively, are at one side edge of the pattern and the longitudinal axes of the shapes 5, 6 extend obliquely to the end edges of the pattern. The half-sole shape 2 is positioned between the shapes 1 and 3 and portions 11, 12 of the margins of the shapes 2, 3 are at one of the longitudinal edges of the pattern.

The rear end 13 of the shape 4 is adjacent one'longitudinal edge of the pattern.

The shape 1 is joined at one longitudinal edge to one longitudinal edge of the shape 2, as indicated at 14, and at its other longitudinal edge to one of the longitudinal edges of the shape 4, as indicated at 15. The toe portion of the shape 1 is connected with the toe portion of the shape 5, as indicated at 16. The rear end 17 of the shape 2 lies between the shapes 3, 5 and one longitudinal edge of the shape connects with one of the longitudinal edges of-the shape 3, as indicated at 18. .The shape 2 connects at one of its longitudinal edges with the toe portion of the shape 5, as indicated at 19. One of the longitudinal edges of the shape 3 is connected with one of the longitudinal edges of the shape 6 as indicated at 20. One of the longitudinal edges of the shape 5 is connected with one of the longitudinal edges of the shape 6 as indicated at 21.

One of the longitudinal edges of the shape 5 is connected with one of the longitudinal edges of the shape 4, as indicated at 22.

The connections 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22 between the different shapes are preferably provided with perforations 23.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the obliquely opposite shapes 1, 6 have their rear ends substantially at the corners of the pattern; that the general direction of the longitudinal axes of the shapes is oblique to the longitudinal axis of the pattern; and that the longitudinal axis of the pattern passes through the toe portions of the shapes 1, 5 and 6; the shapes 1, 5 and 6 have their toes pointing inward and their rear ends outward.

In practice, to use the pattern described above, it will be placed on a piece of leather 24 or other material and a knife or other suitable instrument will be drawn around the marglns of the shapes and a pencil or other suitable instrument will be inserted.

" l, 2, 3, 4, and 6 respectively. Thus six left half-soles and six right half-soles are provided for.

Though the pattern may be applied to pieces of material of any size, in the drawings the blocks 24, 25 are of the size in which the best grade of half-sole leather is sold to shoemakers for half-soling purposes. Prior to my invention shoemakers were enabled to cut but five soles of womens shoes from one of the blocks 24, thus entailing considerable waste of the half-soling material which waste in turn made it incumbent upon theshoemaker to charge the customer for the leather wasted, said charge for wastage being divided equally among the live purc'hasers of the half-soles. By this invention it is clear that considerable waste is eliminated in each block of leather and that therefore in the aggregate a very large saving of leather or other half-soling material is effected by the use of my pattern for cutting out thehalf-soles. \Vhen this pattern is employed the customer will be charged in accordance with the amount of leather or other material in the particular half-sole shape which is employed in repairing her shoes, since the shapes 1 to 6 inclusive are of different areas. Also the shapes are of different contours so that difierent shaped half-soles may be produced in order that different styles of shoes may be fitted with the appropriately shaped sole.

I claim:

A pattern for cutting half-soles, comprising half-sole shapes arranged in the general form of a rectangle, the shapes at obliquely opposite corners of the pattern having their rear ends turned outwardly and their toes turned inwardly,- two other of said shapes having one of their side edges at one of the longitudinal edges of the pattern, one of said last named shapes being at one corner of the pattern and having its rear end at one of the end edges of the pattern, a fifth one of said shapes having its toe turned inwardly and having its rear end at the other longitudinal edge of the pattern, a sixth one of said shapes occupying the remaining corner of the pattern and having its toe and rear end adjacent two edges respectively of the pattern, and said shapes having their longitudinal axes extending obliquely to the longitudinal axis of the pattern.

Signed at Los Angeles, Cal, this 11th day of March, 1919.

WILLIAM W. GILBERT.

Witnesses:

GEORGE H. HILES, L. BELLE WEAVER. 

